The effect of outdoor rearing duration (75 v 50 days) and rearing system (outdoor v indoor based systems) of Iberian pigs on the chemical composition (fatty acid composition of fat and intramuscular fat, moisture, salt, pigment concentrations and water activity of lean meat), the instrumental colour (CIEL*a*b* system) and the sensory characteristics (descriptive analysis) of dry-cured hams were...

The darkling beetle, Sternoplax souvorowiana (Reitter) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), is flightless and lives in the Guerbantonggut desert in northwestern China. Its special eggshell structure, day-active habit, large body size, short life cycle, and ease of rearing under laboratory conditions make it an excellent model for advanced studies on desert adaptation. Determining the sex of this beetle...

1. GENERAL (INCLUDING LAND USE) 5816 Cattand, P., 1988. Sleeping sickness re-awakes. World Health, 1988 (July): 24-25. Trypanosomiases and Leishmaniases Unit, WHO, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. An alarming increase in the number of sleeping sickness cases in many historically endemic areas, where previously good surveillance had reduced incidence to a very low level, demonstrates what can happen...

1. GENERAL (INCLUDING LAND USE) 5816 Cattand, P., 1988. Sleeping sickness re-awakes. World Health, 1988 (July): 24-25. Trypanosomiases and Leishmaniases Unit, WHO, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. An alarming increase in the number of sleeping sickness cases in many historically endemic areas, where previously good surveillance had reduced incidence to a very low level, demonstrates what can happen...

dried fruit mite, carpoglyphus lactis l. not only to being one of the serious and economic pests of some stored products, but also to be used as an alternative prey for commercially mass rearing of predatory mites. in this study, life table parameters of dried fruit mite were examined on baker's yeast under laboratory conditions at three photoperiods including full darkness, full light and 16 :...

The red palm weevil (RPW) Rhynchophorus ferruginous (Olivier) was fully developed and reared on a meridic diet consisting of agar, distilled water, commercial yeast as well as laboratory produced amino and fatty acid rich brewer’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), wheat meal, corn flour, benzoic acid, ascorbic acid, sorbic acid, vitamin mix and tetracycline hydrochloride. A group of weevils rea...

R. Toledo and B. Fried (eds.), Biomphalaria Snails and Larval Trematodes, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-7028-2_2, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Abstract This chapter describes the methods used by the current authors and numerous other investigators to optimize conditions for successfully growing and maintaining both uninfected and infected Biomphalaria glabrata in the laboratory, with pa...

Microdera punctipennis Kasz (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) is a unique species that lives in the desert region of Central Asia and has adopted a nocturnal habit to survive the desert environment. Female adults are larger in size than male adults. The female/male ratio was 1.04:1. A rearing method using reused plastic bottles was used. The rearing conditions were 30 ± 0.5 °C, 30 ± 6% relative humid...

Several aspects of the biology of Xylotrechus arvicola (Olivier), an emerging grape pest, were studied under laboratory conditions. Four diets were tested to rear this species in the laboratory. Among them, only one made rearing from larva to adult possible. The highest mortality, in all cases, was recorded during the first days of larval development. Larvae were kept 45 days at 8°C to break di...

Stable flies are blood feeding parasites and serious pests of livestock. The immature stages develop in decaying materials which frequently have high ammonium content. We added various ammonium salts to our laboratory stable fly rearing medium and measured their effect on size and survival as well as the physical properties of the used media. The addition of ammonium hydroxide, ammonium phospha...